Tuanpai

The Tuanpai, also known as the Youth League Faction, is a faction of the Communist Party of China that includes cadres and government officials who originated from the Communist Youth League of China. The first faction supported party general secretary Hu Yaobang during the 1980s, and its members were more liberal in outlook than the conservative older generations, contributing to the support for Hu's reform programs. When Hu and his fellow reformist Zhao Ziyang were overthrown by the conservatives in 1989, many remaining Youth League leaders were purged from the party leadership. The second incarnation of the Tuanpai faction was born when Hu Jintao became CPC General Secretary in 2002, and the party consisted of grassroots populists who rose from humble origins, opposing the elitist "Princelings", who came from rich coastal provinces such as Shanghai.